War Nerd on 9/11, Bush/Cheney, and Iraq

If half the American population were half as mad as it should be about the disaster of the Bush/Cheney administration's response to Iraq, the streets would be filled with non-stop protests. This starts out with some nasty and gratuitous comments about Princess Diana--about whom I have no opinion...but these kinds of insults are sheer jackassery. But it gets better after that, and ends like so:

But Bush’s support held [in the election of 2004]. That’s when I lost my country, when he was reelected. I used to be an unhappy American nationalist, like a passenger in the back seat wondering how many drinks the driver’s had. But when we invaded Iraq, the car hit a tree—and all the passengers got out and voted to reelect the driver.

That’s the legacy of 9/11: Two dozen spoiled unemployable dimwits managed to lobotomize my country, bankrupt it, make it such a nasty alien place I didn’t even feel part of it any more. I can’t give Osama much of the credit for that, I just don’t see him as that smart—but you know, he did say his goal was to destroy America. And with a lot of help from all you guys who used to be my fellow Americans, he could die content, because he actually managed it.

Yep. That's about the size of it...